We need to line up some NIL moolah for that kid before Rodney Terry comes knockin’.
Austin Peay was awful last season and they looked awful last night. And UTEP was awful last night too. One of the best unknown mid major coaches?
I have no idea how D1 athletes can't make a free throw. And the FT shooting was atrocious yesterday.
Yes, you are correct that we're quick to get excited. I think it's mostly because we are so starved for a winning team. We're all tired of seeing mediocre teams. With that said, I still think this team is fun to watch and play an exciting style.
I wasn’t able to watch the game last night, but by reading everybody’s comments, it obviously wasn’t pretty. Wish I had seen it so that I could throw the performance into the overall mix of what I have seen.
To be a bit fair to us, overreacting game by game is typical of sports fans everywhere. Play well and a team is world beaters, play poorly and we should burn it all down and start over. Give it a month and we'll have a better idea as to what this team is made of.
I think they do practice freethrows, but in my opinion, there are guys who just aren't good shooters. If you look at this year's team, four of the same guys who struggled last year at the line, continue to struggle. Kalu is never going to be a good shooter, but 13% (2-15), is ridiculous. It nearly makes him unplayable, but he does bring a physical presence that is needed. The bigger issue are the guards/forwards. Frazier is a poor FT shooter, below 60% for his career. Hardy's shooting motion is odd, which leads to inconsistent results. Solomon is also inconsistent. The only guys who have better percentages are Powell and Camper. All that said, I'm not sure I see a huge improvement from last year. However, they absolutely have to be better than 45%, or the results could mirror last year in those close losses.
Right, freethrows and turnovers. As Golding mentioned, they definitely have tape for the guys to work on. Hopefully, the team turns their play against AP into a positive. The things AP did on defense that gave us problems are the same things other coaches are going to use with better athletes. One thing I think may help would be to play Terrell and Powell together. Powell is a difference maker, but he is not a natural point, and I expect other teams to exploit that.
I listened to MinerTalk from Monday and they were comparing the team to Barbees and Haskins teams. And Adrian Broaddus and the crew have been hyping up the team as well.
If you have an espn+ account you can re watch the game. I just checked for you and it’s on there already
Not even close to Barbee's NCAA team. Not sure which Haskins teams they are referring too, maybe some later teams (I only know the late 80s and up). Could this team even beat CTF's 13-14 team?
Good points axing. Helps paint a clearer picture of what I didn’t get to see.
That's Awesome right there. Followed this kid in high School and Awesome to see him still playing D-1!
For the record not many people were making any predictions on the season being a huge success lol. Most of us were just saying Utep looked different against UCSB and has a lot of athleticism and Passion lol. Last night was messy yes, but it's one game and it's early and not all games will be Gold. So maybe we all need to pump the breaks, cause we still don't know where this season will go yet lol
It was a 12 point game with 40 seconds, last 4 made it look closer. Also 5 million missed free throws. The game was never in doubt really.
